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Excerpt from Society of Tammany; Columbian Order: Celebration at Tammany Hall, on Friday, July 4th, 1862, Including the Poem, by Henry Morford, the Oration, by Hon. Charles P. Daly, Pub, by Order of the Society <p>In response to this call, the members of the Society and their friends, to the number of two thousand, assembled in the Grand Council Chamber which was superbly decorated with the ags of all nations. A splendid transparency of General jackson was draped in the national colors; on the sides of the room were conspicuously displayed the banners of the Society, and the insignia of the thirteen original States; and the portraits of washington, lafayette, jefferson, polk, clay, and webster, occupied prominent positions on the walls of the old Wigwam. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.